Arlo said:
... I guess I am saying that in their precessional calculations I see evidence
of the latter emerging. And this is qualitatively different from the simple use
of number signs to count sheep or slaves. ... My point was, to Bo, talking
about the "appearance" of intellectual patterns with the Greeks is untenable
argument. Talking about the "dominance" of intellectual patterns as during this
time is something else, and a tenable argument.
dmb says:
I see what you mean. How about this; things as advanced as the precessional
calculations would be something like the intellectual level as it existed
within the womb of the social body, a growing potential that would soon emerge
as a separate, distinguishable being. Then the Axial age is the time when this
potential is actually born and achieves something like independence in Ancient
Greece. Dominance, as Pirsig draws the line, didn't come until the post-WWI
period, less than a century ago.
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